St. Patrick’s Day Mint Chocolate Marble Cake
This mint chocolate marble cake is not only impressive to look at it tastes GREAT!
I’m Irish!
Even if I wasn’t I still think I’d like all things relating to St. Patrick’s Day.
I love all things GREEN,
mint and…
CHOCOLATE!
I also love corned beef.
I even like Corned Beef and Cabbage Soup.
I love Irish Soda Bread too!
And I’d really like to find a Pot O’ Gold at the end of a rainbow or have a Leprechaun come and bring me lots of real gold coins, but I’ll pass on his “tricks”.
It’s interesting how mint and chocolate get a lot of attention this time of year.
Do you think the Girl Scouts planned it all?
Those Thin Mint Cookies are always around this time of year.
I see ads for Mint Chocolate Shakes on commercials.
Well to contribute to the MINT CRAZE, here is my Mint Chocolate Cake…
The outside it’s iced with white mint buttercream frosting with chocolate curls, inside is a fun minty green cake, along with some more chocolate.
I prepare two boxes of white cake mix and split it evenly into four bowls.
(2 cups of batter in each bowl)
Then I added 1 drop green into one bowl along with one teaspoon mint extract,
four drops green into another bowl along with one teaspoon mint extract.
I added five drops of white coloring so the white cake is super-white,
and for the chocolate, I added two teaspoons Special Dark Cocoa.
This is what they look like all blended.
Place each color of batter into both cake pan and repeat until the pans are full.
I place a scoop of one color into the same area of each pan so the pattern matches. But you can certainly create a fun swirl pattern if you like or just add spoonfuls until all the batter is divided into the two pans.
These are 7×4″ cake pans, they hold a lot of batter. The wet towels allowed them to bake evenly and there was very little to trim off to even the cakes.
I baked the cakes at 325 degrees for 50-65 minutes. One cake was done in 50 minutes, the other had a bit more batter in it and took 65 minutes.
I remembered this great tip from I am baker to bake cakes evenly with wet towels wrapped around the cake pans, which is great when you don’t have those baking strips. It worked PERFECTLY!
For the frosting I made buttercream frosting with all shortening to keep it white, I added white food coloring and mint extract.
I even added some gold edible glitter to the chocolate curls, it may be the only gold I’ll see this St. Patrick’s Day, but I still have hope the Leprechaun will bring me the real stuff one day!
i love this one for my birthday. i love chocolate! great idea mixing it with mint so eye catching hihi!
you are invited :p
i really love the color of mint. you mix it in chocolate looks so nice really want to try it.
super mouthwatering
I am not a huge fan of mint and chocolate .. tried it probably just a couple of time! But this cake is so pretty and so beautifully presented that i just wanna take a huge slice of it 🙂
Diane, your cake is stunning! I love the pattern you created. Besides St. Patricks Day (I’m part Irish, too) I can see this being served at a modern art gallery opening. It’s beautiful!
Chocolate and Mint are two of my fav flavors and I love them paired together, so this cake is kinda perfect for me!
Beautifully made, Diane!
I love mint anything: ice cream, candy, and even cookies like thin mints. Its refreshing.
I haven’t tasted a lot of cakes with mint; thats why your cake is different. Its not only beautiful but so inviting. I love the choco curls and the colorful swirls. Nice work!
This cake is soo cute! How fun!
This is one beautiful cake! Mint and chocolate are my favorite combo. Thanks for the tip of baking with a wet towel for even cooking. I need some of those cake pans.
Hot damn! Look at this cake! This is something really special… plus I bet it soaks up all that beer really nicely. 😉 Happy SPD!
Oh..my…my..the cake looks exquisite..and the inside is just a piece of art..wow!!
Your cake is stunning, Diane! I love the element of surprise when it’s sliced into:) Fabulous!
This looks so amazing!! I love chocolate and mint, and this is just such a fun and creative twist!
I love these swirl cakes you’ve been doing, so fun!
lol i also love to have a leprechaun hihi, your chocolate mint is great ! looks beautiful 🙂 perfect.
What a great cake! Luv it!
That sounds SO delicious!!! I must make one. And eat it all. 🙂
WOWZERS!!! That is one cool cake!!! Love the simple outside and the dramatic inside!!!
That is an impressive cake! So gorgeous, and omg so delicious too. I love mint SO much!
Wow absolutely gorgeous!!
Wow, this is beautiful!!! I love St. Patrick’s Day, because green is my most favorite color! All the recipes I find are so beautiful, and look absolutely delicious! Beautiful, Take care, Terra
Your cake is fantastic! I especially love the chocolate curls on top.
I love how high this cake is and for me, you can’t beat the taste of minty chocolate!
all I can say is that this cake is extremely beautiful and the decoration so simple yet lovely I really like the way you made the marble
Wow, looks SO amazing! Love anything mint!